Læs dette da det er et bankkup: Om imperativers funktioner i danske trusselsbreve

This paper examines one salient linguistic feature found in threatening letters, namely imperatives. The focus is on the different functions that imperative verbs can perform in threatening letters, and the paper initially introduces the essential theoretical background. The analysis is based on authentic threatening letters collected and published in two books in 2011 and 2016. More specifically, it will briefly present how many threatening letters the two publications contain and how many of them contain imperatives. The analysis will focus on the threatening letters containing imperatives through a categorization based on the concept of rhetorical moves (Swales 1990), in which the imperative forms are present. The analysis finds that imperatives can be part of eight different types of rhetorical moves in threatening letters, and further presents qualitative analyses of examples of each rhetorical move. Furthermore, the paper discusses the presence of imperatives in threatening letters. It is suggested that more research (both quantitative and qualitative) is needed before imperatives can be established as a characteristic feature of Danish threats.This paper examines one salient linguistic feature found in threatening letters, namely imperatives. The focus is on the different functions that imperative verbs can perform in threatening letters, and the paper initially introduces the essential theoretical background. The analysis is based on authentic threatening letters collected and published in two books in 2011 and 2016. More specifically, it will briefly present how many threatening letters the two publications contain and how many of them contain imperatives. The analysis will focus on the threatening letters containing imperatives through a categorization based on the concept of rhetorical moves (Swales 1990), in which the imperative forms are present. The analysis finds that imperatives can be part of eight different types of rhetorical moves in threatening letters, and further presents qualitative analyses of examples of each rhetorical move. Furthermore, the paper discusses the presence of imperatives in threatening letters. It is suggested that more research (both quantitative and qualitative) is needed before imperatives can be established as a characteristic feature of Danish threats

Flersporede samtaler og hvordan de skabes

It is a well-known phenomenon that participants orient to several things, people or topics within conversations. Sometimes, this can develop into what Maria Egbert (1993) calls schisming, namely when a single conversation diverges into several conversations that are not necessarily dependent on each other. This paper takes a conversation analytic approach to showing how some participants in a conversation (three members of a study group in this case) can create and take part in two different conversations, which are both dependent on the main conversation. Furthermore, it shows that participants create these subordinate conversations through intersubjective processes and contextualization of their roles and relationships. Lastly, it suggests and discusses a new phenomenon similar to the notion of schisming that we call primary and secondary conversational tracks/sequences, and how it can be further investigated in talk in interaction